“Listen, I don’t want to waste a lot of time here so I’ll try to keep it brief. I get you don’t have much experience supporting distributed mission-critical data stores at scale and honestly looking strictly at your resume I would never consider you for my data team, …

“Hey, Sergey, we have some news for you. Let’s meet and discuss over a cup of coffee later today?” – that was the text I received from my recruiter Lauren after going through three rounds of interviews with HBO. Not going to lie at that point I was anxious to hear the final verdict. …

It was still dark when I woke up this morning. The SleepCycle app that I use as my smart alarm clock showed 6.05am, even though I set it for 6.30am. Apparently, the app decided to wake me up a bit earlier while I was in the light REM sleep phase. …

This last week in New York was all about the new storm named Florence which was supposed to do a lot of damage to the coastal areas. Many people are worried (understandably) and just want it to pass as soon as possible.